Creating original knowledge in and for the workplace: evidence from a practitioner doctorate |
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Authors: | Stan Lester |
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Affiliation: | 1. Stan Lester Developments , Taunton , UK s.lester@devmts.co.uk |
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Abstract: | The workplace is becoming acknowledged, if not without some contention, as a site of knowledge production that can have equal validity with academic and other research-oriented contexts. One way of investigating practice-based knowledge generation is through doctoral work that is based on research and development in the workplace. Examination of a selection of outputs from a doctorate geared specifically to work-based candidates confirms the workplace as a site of valid knowledge production, and also indicates that real-life projects concerned with development and change rather than explicitly with research can, if pursued with intellectual rigour and critical reflection, be a powerful source of new knowledge. |
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Keywords: | workplace knowledge knowledge production work-based learning doctorate |
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